"An Online Odyssey" is a promotional only album released by Britishfunk/acid jazz band Jamiroquai, released on 1 June 2001 in the United Kingdom in the Summer of 2001, to promote the launch of "A Funk Odyssey", as well as the band's new website.[1] Around 10,000 copies of the album were pressed, with most being distributed in Britain. British copies of the album also featured a membership postcard for the group's fan club, "A Club Odyssey".[2]

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Funk
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Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid- 1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues. Like much of African-inspired music, funk typically consists of a groove with rhythm instruments playing interlocking grooves. Funk uses the same richly-colored extended chords found in jazz, such as minor chords with added sevenths and elevenths. Other musical groups, including Sly and the Family Stone and Parliament-Funkadelic, soon began to adopt, Funk samples have been used extensively in genres including hip hop, house music, and drum and bass. It is also the influence of go-go, a subgenre associated with funk. The word funk initially referred to a strong odor and it is originally derived from Latin fumigare via Old French fungiere and, in this sense, it was first documented in English in 1620. In 1784 funky meaning musty was first documented, which, in turn, in early jam sessions, musicians would encourage one another to get down by telling one another, Now, put some stank on it. At least as early as 1907, jazz songs carried titles such as Funky, as late as the 1950s and early 1960s, when funk and funky were used increasingly in the context of jazz music, the terms still were considered indelicate and inappropriate for use in polite company. According to one source, New Orleans-born drummer Earl Palmer was the first to use the word funky to explain to other musicians that their music should be made more syncopated, the style later evolved into a rather hard-driving, insistent rhythm, implying a more carnal quality. This early form of the set the pattern for later musicians. The music was identified as slow, sexy, loose, riff-oriented, a great deal of funk is rhythmically based on a two-celled onbeat/offbeat structure, which originated in sub-Saharan African music traditions. New Orleans appropriated the bifurcated structure from the Afro-Cuban mambo and conga in the late 1940s, New Orleans funk, as it was called, gained international acclaim largely because James Browns rhythm section used it to great effect. Funk creates an intense groove by using strong guitar riffs and bass lines, like Motown recordings, funk songs used bass lines as the centerpiece of songs. Slap basss mixture of thumb-slapped low notes and finger popped high notes allowed the bass to have a rhythmic role. In funk bands, guitarists typically play in a style, often using the wah-wah sound effect. Guitarist Ernie Isley of The Isley Brothers and Eddie Hazel of Funkadelic were notably influenced by Jimi Hendrixs improvised solos, Eddie Hazel, who worked with George Clinton, is one of the most notable guitar soloists in funk. Ernie Isley was tutored at an age by Jimi Hendrix himself. Jimmy Nolen and Phelps Collins are famous funk rhythm guitarists who both worked with James Brown, on Browns Give It Up or Turnit a Loose, Jimmy Nolens guitar part has a bare bones tonal structure

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Contemporary R&B
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Contemporary R&B, also known as simply R&B, is a music genre that combines elements of rhythm and blues, soul, funk, pop, hip hop and dance. The genre features a record production style, drum machine-backed rhythms, an occasional saxophone-laced beat to give a jazz feel. Electronic influences are becoming a trend and the use of hip hop or dance-inspired beats are typical, although the roughness. Contemporary R&B vocalists are often known for their use of melisma, popularized by such as Michael Jackson, R. Kelly, Craig David, Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston. That same year, Teddy Riley began producing R&B recordings that included hip hop influences and this combination of R&B style and hip hop rhythms was termed new jack swing and was applied to artists such as Bobby Brown, Keith Sweat, Al B. Guy, Jodeci and Bell Biv DeVoe, the style became less popular by the end of the 1990s, but later experienced a resurgence. In 1990 Mariah Carey released Vision of Love as her debut single and it was immensely popular peaking at number 1 in many worldwide charts including the Billboard Hot 100, and it propelled Mariahs carrier. The song is said to have popularized the use of melisma. During the mid-1990s, Whitney Houstons The Bodyguard, Original Soundtrack Album sold over 40 million copies becoming the best-selling soundtrack of all time. Janet Jacksons self-titled fifth studio album janet. which came after her historic multimillion-dollar contract with Virgin Records, sold over twenty million copies worldwide. Boyz II Men and Mariah Carey recorded several Billboard Hot 100 No.1 hits, including One Sweet Day, Carey also released a remix of her 1995 single Fantasy, with Ol Dirty Bastard as a feature, a collaboration format that was unheard of at this point. Carey, Boyz II Men and TLC released albums in 1994 and 1995—Daydream, II and CrazySexyCool. In the late 1990s, neo soul, which added 1970s soul influences to the hip hop soul blend, arose, led by such as DAngelo, Erykah Badu. Hill and Missy Elliott further blurred the line between R&B and hip hop by recording both styles, beginning in 1995, the Grammy Awards enacted the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album, with II by Boyz II Men becoming the first recipient. The award was received by TLC for CrazySexyCool in 1996, Tony Rich for Words in 1997, Erykah Badu for Baduizm in 1998. At the end of 1999, Billboard magazine ranked Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson as the first, simultaneously, in the second half of the 1990s, The Neptunes and Timbaland set influential precedence on contemporary R&B and hip hop music. R&B acts such as Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Usher, in 2001, Alicia Keys released Fallin as her debut single. It peaking at one on the Billboard Hot 100, Mainstream Top 40

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United Kingdom
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom or Britain, is a sovereign country in western Europe. Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland, the United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state‍—‌the Republic of Ireland. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland, with an area of 242,500 square kilometres, the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th-largest in Europe. It is also the 21st-most populous country, with an estimated 65.1 million inhabitants, together, this makes it the fourth-most densely populated country in the European Union. The United Kingdom is a monarchy with a parliamentary system of governance. The monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since 6 February 1952, other major urban areas in the United Kingdom include the regions of Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester. The United Kingdom consists of four countries—England, Scotland, Wales, the last three have devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in their capitals, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, respectively. The relationships among the countries of the UK have changed over time, Wales was annexed by the Kingdom of England under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542. A treaty between England and Scotland resulted in 1707 in a unified Kingdom of Great Britain, which merged in 1801 with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, leaving the present formulation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, there are fourteen British Overseas Territories. These are the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies. The United Kingdom is a country and has the worlds fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP. The UK is considered to have an economy and is categorised as very high in the Human Development Index. It was the worlds first industrialised country and the worlds foremost power during the 19th, the UK remains a great power with considerable economic, cultural, military, scientific and political influence internationally. It is a nuclear weapons state and its military expenditure ranks fourth or fifth in the world. The UK has been a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council since its first session in 1946 and it has been a leading member state of the EU and its predecessor, the European Economic Community, since 1973. However, on 23 June 2016, a referendum on the UKs membership of the EU resulted in a decision to leave. The Acts of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have devolved self-government

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Jamiroquai
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Jamiroquai are a British funk and acid jazz band formed in 1992. Subsequent albums have explored other musical directions such as pop, rock, the band name is a mix of jam and iroquai, based on the Iroquois, a Native American tribe. The original band was Jay Kay, Toby Smith, Stuart Zender, Nick Van Gelder, Wallis Buchanan and these are the founding members of Jamiroquai and were involved in the writing and production of the first album. Kay was the impetus behind the formation of Jamiroquai, deciding to form the band after an audition to become the singer of the Brand New Heavies. Although he has said that he has attempted to have Jamiroquai treated as a band, Jamiroquais first single, When You Gonna Learn, was released in 1992 on the Acid Jazz label. Following its success, Kay signed a record deal with Sony Music Entertainment. The first Sony album, Emergency on Planet Earth, was released in 1993 and it was followed in 1994 by The Return of the Space Cowboy. The single Space Cowboy gained notice on the charts and in club rotation, while Jamiroquai was growing in popularity in the UK, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, it remained relatively unknown to U. S and other international audiences. The bands American breakthrough came with the album, Travelling Without Moving in 1996. The success of Virtual Insanity was due in part to its Jonathan Glazer-directed video, in 1998, Jamiroquai released Deeper Underground, the first single from their fourth studio album, Synkronized, which also appeared in the soundtrack for the 1998 movie Godzilla. By their fifth album, A Funk Odyssey, they had evolved so drastically, with the departure of more and more original band members, including Wallis Buchanan and his didgeridoo, Jamiroquai had become a very different band from that of 1992. In spite of the changes, the albums first single, Little L. In 2003, Jamiroquai compiled and mixed a DJ mix album for the Late Night Tales series for Azuli Records, the track selection shows some of the bands soul, funk and disco influences, including tracks from The Pointer Sisters, The Commodores and Johnny Hammond Smith. Its sixth album, titled Dynamite was released on 20 June 2005 and it reached No.3 on the UK charts. The first single, Feels Just Like It Should was released early in June, Jamiroquai released a greatest hits collection, High Times, Singles 1992–2006 in November 2006. The release of this marked the end of Kays eight-album contract with Sony. The album reached the number 1 spot in the UK album chart after its first week of release, the album featured two new tracks, Runaway and Radio. On 18 September 2006, Runaway was given its first play by UK radio stations and it was released as a single on 30 October 2006

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Jools Holland
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Julian Miles Jools Holland, OBE, DL is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer and television presenter. He was an member of the band Squeeze and his work has involved him with many artists including Sting, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, George Harrison, David Gilmour, Magazine. Since 1992, he has hosted Later, with Jools Holland, a music-based show aired on BBC2, on which his annual show Hootenanny is based. Holland is an author and appears on television shows besides his own. In 2004, he collaborated with Tom Jones on an album of traditional R&B music. He also regularly hosts the weekly programme Jools Holland on BBC Radio 2, Holland played as a session musician before finding fame, and his first studio session was with Wayne County & the Electric Chairs in 1976 on their track Fuck Off. Holland began issuing records in 1978, his first EP being Boogie Woogie 78. He continued his career through the early 1980s, releasing an album. He branched out into TV, co-presenting the Newcastle-based TV music show The Tube with Paula Yates and he referred to this in his sitcom The Groovy Fellers with Rowland Rivron. In 1983 Holland played a piano solo on The Thes re-recording of Uncertain Smile for the album Soul Mining. In 1985, Squeeze unexpectedly regrouped including Holland as their keyboard player, Holland remained in the band until 1990, at which point he again departed Squeeze to resume his solo career as a musician and a TV host. In 1987, Holland formed the Jools Holland Big Band, which consisted of himself and this gradually became the 18-piece Jools Hollands Rhythm and Blues Orchestra. Between 1988 and 1990 he performed and co-hosted along with David Sanborn during the two seasons of the performance programme Sunday Night on NBC late-night television. Since 1992 he has presented the music programme Later, with Jools Holland, plus an annual New Years Eve Hootenanny. In 1996, Holland signed a contract with Warner Bros. Records, and his records are now marketed through Rhino Records, Holland has a touring band, the Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, which often includes singers Sam Brown and Ruby Turner and his younger brother, singer-songwriter and keyboard player, Christopher Holland. In January 2005 Holland and his band performed with Eric Clapton as the act of the Tsunami Relief Cardiff. On 4 June 2012, Holland performed at the Queens Diamond Jubilee Concert outside Buckingham Palace in London, also in June 2012, he presented a programme about the popular songs of London on BBC Two

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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu

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Acid jazz
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Acid jazz, also known as club jazz, is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, soul, funk, and disco. Acid jazz originated in the London club scene of the mid-1980s in the rare groove movement and spread to the US, Japan, Eastern Europe, and Brazil. Major acts included Brand New Heavies, Incognito, Us3, and Jamiroquai from the UK and Buckshot LeFonque and Digable Planets from the US. The rise of club music in the mid to late 1990s led to a decline in interest, and in the twenty-first century. Many acts that might have been defined as acid jazz are now seen as jazz-funk, neo soul, various origins have been attributed to the name of the genre, including claims to have coined the term by DJs Gilles Peterson and Chris Bangs. The name is a play on the house genre, which was flourishing in the UK club scene in the 1980s. Acid jazz consisted of two related movements, the second were groups influenced by these recordings and who emphasised a groove-based approach to music. Acid jazz uses elements of jazz, funk and hip-hop, the style is characterised by danceable grooves, and long, repetitive compositions. Typical ensembles include horns, a rhythm section, a vocalist that may sing and rap. Acid jazz originated in the London club scene of the mid-1980s, with DJs of the rare groove movement and their main interests were in the fringe of jazz fusion, jazz funk, and with lesser input from soul jazz of the 1950s and 1960s. Particularly significant were records from the Blue Note catalogue and these DJs included Gilles Peterson, who had residencies at several London clubs in the 1980s, began in his own small pirate radio station and then moved to the much larger Kiss-FM. In 1988 with producer Eddie Piller he formed the label Acid Jazz Records, the first release from the company was the compilation Totally Wired, which contained obscure jazz funk tracks from the 1970s with updated new tracks. In 1990 Peterson left to found his own label Talkin Loud at Phonogram, the company signed acts such as Galliano, Young Disciples and Urban Species. Another British record label, Fourth And Broadway Records, was formed in 1990, artists included Pharoah Sanders, Stereo MCs, the French rapper MC Solaar, Japanese production team United Future Organization and saxophonist Courtney Pine. In 1991 the genre broke into the mainstream with the success of Brand New Heavies, after one eponymous album with Acid Jazz Records the group moved on to FFRR Records for their hit singles Never Stop and Dreams Come True. Other bands included Incognito and Us3, whose Cantaloop was the biggest hit in the genre, other live acts included Stereo MCs and the James Taylor Quartet. The initial mainstream success of acid jazz was followed by a number of compilations that left the public confused as to the nature of. In the early 1990s local acid jazz scenes developed in the US, from this Groove Academy developed into a record label and media company

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Jay Kay
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Jay Kay is an English singer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the acid jazz band Jamiroquai. Kay was born in Stretford, Greater Manchester, on 30 December 1969 and his mother, Karen Kay, is a former cabaret singer and television personality. His biological father is Luís Saraiva, a Portuguese former guitarist, Kays identical twin, David, died some weeks after they were born. It is stated in the 1997 Lancashire Evening Telegraph article that Kay moved with his mother and step-father Mervyn Kay to Manchester as a youngster, james Royal—often misidentified as Kays stepfather—is his mothers former manager with whom she had a relationship during Kays childhood years. Royal had stated in his 2002 interview in News of the World that he never married Karen Kay, Kay attended Oakham School in Rutland. He also, when moved to Ealing in his years, attended Twyford High School. Jamiroquai has sold over thirty albums, and has spent a collective 162 weeks on the UK singles chart between 1992 and 2006, with Kays personal wealth said to be around £40 million. He appeared on the Sunday Times Rich List 2004 at joint-950th, the Sunday Times Rich List 2008 has him tied for #1,794, with £40 million. After the huge success of Jamiroquais first single, When You Gonna Learn, the bands first album was Emergency on Planet Earth. The relationship with Sony ended in 2007, the bands third album, Travelling Without Moving, generated international attention with the ground-breaking video of Virtual Insanity, which earned Jamiroquai four MTV Video Music Awards. Since then, their album, Synkronized, has done just as well, it was recorded in Kays home studio located in the garden of his 500-year-old. Kay is occasionally referred to as Jamiroquai, with a misconception existing that the band is actually a solo artist, Kay is well known for his array of elaborate hats and headgear. When appearing professionally he has referred to as the mad hatter for his love of headgear. It is said that he has many different hats that he wears at concerts, some Native American groups and their supporters have criticized him for wearing sacred regalia. Kay appeared in an episode of the BBC series The Naked Chef alongside chef Jamie Oliver and he has also performed on the series Strictly Come Dancing singing Canned Heat. He also appeared four times in the BBC car show Top Gear and his second appearance was in series 3, episode 4, where Kay drove his Lamborghini Miura with Richard Hammond as a passenger. The third appearance was in series 11, episode 6, where he came in to beat the top time held by Simon Cowell and he succeeded with a lap time of 1,45.8. Kay won Top Gears John Sergeant Award for the best dance, when have you ever done anything

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Rock Dust Light Star
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Rock Dust Light Star is the seventh studio album released by British funk/acid jazz band Jamiroquai. The album was released on 1 November 2010 in the United Kingdom under Universal Music/Mercury Records, the album was recorded at Jay Kays home studio in Buckinghamshire, as well as Hook End Manor in Oxfordshire, and Karma Studios in Thailand. The album is entirely by the band, and produced by first time collaborators Charlie Russell. The band revealed that the style of the new album will be more centred on funk and rock, however, frontman Jay claimed that the tone. Promotion of the began in October 2010, with a press conference involving band members Jay Kay, Derrick McKenzie, Sola Akingbola, Matt Johnson, Paul Turner. They announced that the group were to two concerts, in Colombia and Brazil, to promote the album, before discussing plans for a possible world tour in 2011. In a review for The Daily Telegraph, the album was described as blistering, poetic, meaty, reflective, upon release, the album debuted at #7 on the UK Albums Chart with sales of less than 35,000 copies. As of December 2010, the album has sold 210,000 copies worldwide, less than half of the sales of their previous album, on 17 December 2010, the album was certified Gold in the UK for reaching sales of 100,000 copies. In June 2011, another string of dates were confirmed on the bands website for June. Although a total of 30 songs were recorded for the album, according to Kay, a video for the album, posted just before release, showed recording of the tracks Ive Been Working and Super Highway, however, none of these appeared on the final track listing. All Mixed Up in You appeared as a title for Angeline. Upon the album being available to pre-order, several retail websites listed the standard album containing thirteen tracks. However, upon the album appearing in stores, the track was nowhere to be seen, on 2 June 2011 a competition began to design artwork for a brand new Jamiroquai single, Smile, an out-take from Rock Dust Light Star. On 9 June the winner of the competition was announced, and the song was made available for download via SoundCloud and iTunes